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An argument that—despite dramatic advances in the field—artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent.

In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level intelligence and judgment, which have been honed over millennia. Recent advances in AI may be of epochal significance, but human intelligence is of a different order than even the most powerful calculative ability enabled by new computational capacities. Smith calls this AI ability “reckoning,” and argues that it does not lead to full human judgment—dispassionate, deliberative thought grounded in ethical commitment and responsible action.

Taking judgment as the ultimate goal of intelligence, Smith examines the history of AI from its first-wave origins (“good old-fashioned AI,” or GOFAI) to such celebrated second-wave approaches as machine learning, paying particular attention to recent advances that have led to excitement, anxiety, and debate. He considers each AI technology's underlying assumptions, the conceptions of intelligence targeted at each stage, and the successes achieved so far. Smith unpacks the notion of intelligence itself—what sort humans have, and what sort AI aims at.

Smith worries that, impressed by AI's reckoning prowess, we will shift our expectations of human intelligence. What we should do, he argues, is learn to use AI for the reckoning tasks at which it excels while we strengthen our commitment to judgment, ethics, and the world.

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The Promise of Artificial Intelligence stands on the continental divide of AI that separates the past, based on symbol processing and syntax, from the future, based on learning and semantics grounded in sensory experience. The views are inspiring.

―Terrence Sejnowski, Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego; Francis Crick Professor, Salk Institute

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Brian Cantwell Smith is Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is the author of On the Origin of Objects (MIT Press).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Illustrated edition (October 8, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262043041
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262043045
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.74 x 9.25 inches

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Paul Slaats

Excellent depth on the topic

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This book places AI in a broad context, with a very thorough grounding. A little heavy on the footnotes in the sense that they can disrupt reading; however, for those seeking depth on the topic for purposes of placing today's solution development and new business ideation in context, I really appreciated it. It brings home how early we are in these types of transformational technologies.

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His central thesis is that for AI to be worthy of the name the artificial Intelligence has to both, believe that there is a real world out there, and go as far as necessary to make sure that it is dealing with the real world instead of a misleading abstraction. Otherwise the AI will keep making stupid misjudgements like the kind we keep hearing about.

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Mr. David Catton

The message was almost lost in the verbose style of writing.

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Clearly the author is very familiar with the topic but his use of English obscured a great deal of his important message. I ploughed on to the end but could have enjoyed the experience far more if the language used had been better edited.

David S.

thought provoking critique of AI / analysis of intelligence

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very useful reminder of how much richer a notion of intelligence one has to have before one can even start the project of building an artificial one.

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